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Wed, 10/05/2011 - 22:00 by Neka Sehgal
On receiving the late night call from Stockholm of his Nobel win, astrophysicist Brian Schmidt initial thought was some graduate student was playing a prank on him.
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Tue, 03/15/2011 - 14:05 by Neka Sehgal
Feeling low about being unemployed? Take consolation in the fact that you are not stuck in a bad job.
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Mon, 12/13/2010 - 12:07 by Rakhi
Brisbane, Australia -- Australia is looking to China as a new market for its kangaroo meat, an industry official says.
A delegation of Chinese agricultural officials has arrived in Australia to investigate the nation's kangaroo production systems. John Kelly of the Kangaroo Industries Association said he is hoping exports of kangaroo meat to China for use by restaurants will be approved following the visit.
Part of the problem of getting Chinese to warm up to the idea of eating kangaroo meat is linguistic, Kelly said. It may be a good idea to come up with another Chinese word for kangaroo since the one they use now "loosely translates to 'bloody big rat with a pouch,'" he said.
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Thu, 12/09/2010 - 07:39 by Prince damin
Sydney -- Juan Martin del Potro, who played in just three tournaments in 2010 because of injury, has entered an Australian Open tune-up event as part of his comeback.
Del Potro, 22, won the 2009 U.S. Open title and was ranked as high as No. 4 in the world before a right wrist injury curtailed his play. He made it to the Round of 16 at the Australia Open but played in only two other tournaments since, losing in the first round each time.
The lack of play caused his world ranking to fall to No. 257.
Tournament officials have extended del Potro a wild-card invitation to the Sydney Invitational, which takes place the week before the 2011 Australian Open. That tournament begins Jan. 17.
Copyright 2010 United Press International, Inc. (UPI).
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Wed, 12/08/2010 - 10:00 by Prince damin
Toowoomba, Australia -- An Australian man who married his 5-year-old Labrador in a city park said his relationship with the canine is "pure love" and "not sexual."
Joseph Guiso of Toowoomba wed Honey the Labrador in a ceremony Monday while surrounded by 30 close friends and family in Laurel Bank Park, The (Toowoomba) Chronicle reported Tuesday.
"You're my best friend and you make every part of my day better," Guiso said in his vows.
"It's not sexual," he said after the ceremony. "It's just pure love."
Guiso described himself as a "religious guy" who could not handle the guilt of living with his love out of wedlock.
Copyright 2010 United Press International, Inc. (UPI).
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Thu, 12/02/2010 - 22:23 by Prince damin
Sydney -- The Australian airline Quantas Airways says it has begun legal action against the maker of an engine used on some Airbus A380 passenger jets.
Quantas officials said they initiated the action against engine supplier Rolls-Royce as a backup in case it can't reach a settlement with the company over the explosion of one of its engines in flight last month, the BBC reported.
The pilots in the November flight made a successful emergency landing in Singapore after one of the explosion.
The Australian Safety Bureau found a manufacturing problem with the Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engines.
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Tue, 11/30/2010 - 12:38 by Rakhi
Darwin, Australia -- An Australian woman was sentenced to four months in jail for stabbing her ex-boyfriend while he was in bed with another woman.
Lorena Lippett of Darwin, Northern Territories, had been drinking heavily when she attacked her ex-boyfriend in the stomach with a small pair of scissors while he was in bed with the other woman at his home in October, prosecutors said.
Lippett had a domestic violence order prohibiting her from talking to her ex-boyfriend, but the court heard the pair had resumed their sexual relationship.
The court was told Lippett is only violent when drunk and she wishes to apologize to her ex-boyfriend, who needed three stitches to close the wound.
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Fri, 11/26/2010 - 09:31 by Rakhi
Melbourne -- Australian Open officials announced Thursday that five-time champion Serena Williams had withdrawn from the first major tennis event of 2011.
Williams told tournament director Craig Tiley she had not fully recovered from foot surgery this summer. She has not competed since winning the title at Wimbledon in July.
"Serena is a great champion and we will miss her in January," Tiley said in announcing the withdrawal. "We send her our very best wishes for a speedy recovery."
Williams has reached the finals of the Australian Open five times and has won every one of them. She won the last two Australian titles as well as
in 2003, 2005 and 2007.
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Thu, 11/25/2010 - 10:00 by Prince damin
Melbourne -- An Australian woman was in a hospital after being run over by her own car -- twice, authorities said.
The woman, from the Melbourne suburb of Noble Park, was hit in her driveway Wednesday afternoon when her car rolled backward out of the driveway.
The car then crossed the road, struck a fence and bounced back, hitting the woman again.
Paramedics treated the woman at the scene and took her to hospital where she was in serious condition. Police did not release the woman's name.
Copyright 2010 United Press International, Inc. (UPI).
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Thu, 11/25/2010 - 09:35 by Prince damin
Adelaide, Australia -- Australian researchers using DNA says they have identified a new but critically endangered species of parrot in Western Australia.
DNA experts from the University of Adelaide using museum specimens up to 160 years old say populations of ground parrots in eastern and western Australia are highly distinct from each other and that the western populations should be recognized as a new species, Pezoporus flaviventris, BiologyNews.net reported.
"The discovery has major conservation implications," said research leader Stephen Murphy of the Australian Wildlife Conservancy.
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Thu, 11/18/2010 - 14:26 by Neka Sehgal
A new procedure that regulates blood pressure by destroying certain nerves in the kidney could significantly cut the risk of future strokes and heart attacks in thousands suffering from the condition, claims a new study.
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Wed, 11/17/2010 - 09:48 by Prince damin
Melbourne -- An Australian man has begun his attempt to spend three weeks in the front window of his shop with 40 venomous spiders.
Nick Le Souef said he will spend three weeks in the window enclosure of his opal shop in Melbourne with spiders including redbacks, hairy huntsmen and white-tailed biting spiders, the Melbourne Herald Sun reported Tuesday.
"I've put most of them in together already and a few have eaten the others so that's where I expect their attention will be," he said.
Le Souef said the stunt is intended to raise money for children's charity Variety.
Copyright 2010 United Press International, Inc. (UPI).
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